Seams in History #2: The Declaration of CyrusEzra Chapter one presents the to the reader a text in which Cyrus king of Persia gave the Jews of his kingdom the right to return to...
History of HanukkahI tried my best to cover the details that created the story of Hanukkah, but avoided going to deep into the battles after Judah and the...
Midrahs&KaballahRaising questions about popular fields of study in Judaism known as Midrash and Kabbalah. What are the limits of thees fields, and do...
Aramaic and Hebrew in contact #1It is very cold at the moment here in Israel, and I was thinking of a small anecdote for today: The word for cold in Hebrew is קר-Qar....
Vayeshev 2015The brothers fight over who is more important and forget that they are all the sons of Ya'aqov. We also tend to forget that we are all...